Little Bromley
Results: 13 records
B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with scroll
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060527018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
Scene Description: not a very convincing eagle; it does not hold a scroll
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
BBU01: design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: not clear which Evangelist's symbol occupies the right panel in this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05194BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 kms ENE of Colchester
Additional Comments: NB: though the Essex Churches picture shows only one symbol, the other three are in place, including an angel with scroll, for St. Matthew
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal bowl with panelled sides carved alternately with roses and the symbols of the evangelists, under-edge with four half-angels holding hearts or shields, buttressed stem, early 16th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, stem with buttresses, bowl with the four Symbols of the Evangelists and four rosettes. The figure carving is very primitive." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add the date "Early C16". The Evangelists' symbols are somewhat 'sui generis', and not in the style expected in a late-Perpendicular English font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 542
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 163
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, 273